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Angled close-up of blue, yellow and white flowers across the Seikou Kiln Red Umekiku plate’s red rim.
  • Angled close-up of blue, yellow and white flowers across the Seikou Kiln Red Umekiku plate’s red rim.
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  • Overhead view of the Seikou Kiln Sakura plate with white sakura blossoms and red accents across a blue border.
  • Overhead view of the Seikou Kiln Umekiku plate with blue, yellow and white flowers across a red border.
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  • Close-up of the Seikou Kiln Chidori plate’s rim with small yellow birds and pale blue waves.
  • Angled close-up of the Seikou Kiln Sakura plate’s blue rim with white blossoms and red accents.
  • Close-up of nested squares in blue, teal, red, yellow and brown around the Seikou Kiln Ishidatami plate’s rim.
  • Low side view of the Seikou Kiln Sakura plate showing its shallow profile and blue border with white blossoms.
  • Low side view of the Seikou Kiln Chidori plate showing its shallow profile and blue waves with yellow birds.
  • Low side view of the Seikou Kiln Ishidatami plate showing its shallow profile and multicoloured square border.
  • Low side view of the Seikou Kiln Umekiku plate showing its shallow profile and colourful flowers on a red border.
Kutani Ware Porcelain Plate, 21cm

Kutani Ware Porcelain Plate, 21cm

£25.00
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Material: Ceramic
Kutani-九谷焼

Dimensions:
Width: 21cm
 Height: 2.5cm

Care instructions

Microwave safe.
Dishwasher safe.

Frequent dishwasher use may accelerate wear on the painted design over time; hand washing is recommended to keep the pattern looking its best for longer.
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At a glance

• Glossy Kutani colour sits slightly raised from the porcelain, giving the pattern visible and tactile depth
• Decorative borders frame a calm white centre, adding colour without competing with the food
• Several patterns continue across matching Seikou cups and bowls for easy mixing or coordination

The most useful part of this colourful plate may be the space Seikou leaves undecorated.

Each design concentrates its pattern around the border, leaving a broad white centre for the food. Cake, sandwiches, salads or a simple lunch still read clearly, while the Kutani colour acts almost like a frame around them.

The decoration has more depth than an ordinary flat print. Seikou formulates its own glassy overglaze enamels and produces its transfer papers in-house. The original outlines begin as hand-drawn artwork, the transfers are applied to the porcelain by hand, and firing leaves the colour glossy and slightly raised enough to see and feel.

At 21cm, it moves easily between dessert, breakfast, lunch and side-dish use.

Several of the patterns also continue across Seikou mugs, rice bowls and cups, so the table can be coordinated gradually or mixed across different motifs rather than bought as one fixed matching set.

- Umekiku set: plate, mug, lucky cup and rice bowl
- Ishidatami set: plate, mug and rice bowl
- Chidori set: plate, lucky cup and rice bowl

Chidori (a small plover shown flying over waves) is one of Japan's oldest good luck patterns; birds crossing rough water together have long stood for a marriage, or a household, that gets through hard times side by side, and the name plays on a pun for taking a thousand victories.

Ishidatami (a chequered, cobblestone pattern) takes its name from stone paving laid out in a grid; in Japan it is considered protective against misfortune, and because the grid repeats outward with no natural end, it is also read as a wish for prosperity that keeps on going.

Sakura (cherry blossom) needs little introduction; here it scatters densely across a deep blue ground, marking the turn of the Japanese year toward spring.

Umekiku (plum and chrysanthemum) pairs two flowers often seen together in Japanese design: ume flowers while snow is still on the ground, a symbol of quiet resilience, while kiku, the chrysanthemum, is Japan's flower of longevity.

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